A very happy 2018 to all of you! At the start of the new year we again need to replace our furry friends by fresh ones. Thank you to everyone who made a contribution last year. I'm sure we can reach our goal again this year!120 hamsters will produce enough electricity to keep the servers running for an entire year.

Keeping a server online consumes a lot of electricity. Since it's 2017, and global warming is no joke, we're using hamsters to keep everything running smoothly.The pack of 2016 is nearing retirement, so we need a fresh batch!We have 40 hamsters running at a time, working in 3 shifts around the clock. That means we need 120 hamsters. They only cost â‚¬1,00 each(*).

Barack Obama is elected president of the United StatesApple introduces the iPadMicrosoft releases Windows 7

What do these things have in common? They all happened after SKC was founded.

That's right, as of today, SKC is 10 years old. A FULL DECADE. That's 3650 days, 87.600 hours or 5.256.000 minutesOver the course of these 10 years, on all 3 servers combined, we've played well over 1 MILLION ROUNDS. 1 MILLION!!!!

This has been one hell of a ride. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank a couple of people in particular.

First of all Hitman and Kingbong, our "founding fathers". They were the ones who set up our very first server and created the clan.

Bagpuss, for hosting the server in his own home and creating our wonderful website.

Plodders, for taking over the hosting and providing us with an easily manageable infrastructure.

All of our map makers, more specifically Dockinoke, HumanTraffic, Sputs, Csena and Obelix. It's your maps that make our servers so damn unique.

2016 will be the year where SKC turns 10 years old! Huray!Unfortunately, the start of the new year also means we've run out of funds to keep the servers running. Currently the paypal balance stands at â‚¬4,48. This means we can stay online till midway January.

A small donation of just â‚¬10 is enough to keep all 3 servers running for thirty days. To make it to our birthday (29th of November), we need about â‚¬100 in total. It's a hefty sum, but together we can do it.

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365 days funded!

EDIT 1: Massive thank you to Necktrox, Obelix and Rhytz. A little under 100 days left to be funded( = â‚¬31,67)!EDIT 2: Thank you Bubu! Just 66 days left to be funded ( = â‚¬22)EDIT 3: Thank you Traveler for your contribution. 56 days left to be funded (= â‚¬19)EDIT 4: Double thanks to trav! We just reached our goal!

There's 105,33 in our paypal account now. I'll make up the rest so we're at â‚¬120. This means we're good till the end of the year!